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“You defended yourself, my girl,” I cut in and corrected her with a finger on her lips. I strained to see them from this angle, but something visceral told me what she said. “She hurt you.” I moved my head closer to hers, whispering directly into her ear.
“I did worse.” She shook her head, and her whole body followed suit. “She was just trying to survive.”
“So were you.”
Her fingertips turned white, squeezing harder on her chest, and her head collapsed back against me. She wheezed, each breath bringing pain and stress.
“I don’t have a weapon to scare them off.” She spoke in the brief gaps of mellowed agony. “The other girls will single me out because of what I did. I’m so scared right now.”
I heard a noise behind us. Fast footsteps suddenly slowed down, possibly to scout out the surroundings. We were safe here if we stayed silent. The tree easily concealed us with its bulk.
“You have a weapon,” I whispered, pulling my blade from my pants for the second time and placing it in her hand.
Her eyes followed my bloody fingers as they moved back to her body.
I glanced around, seeing another naked body, waving around a blade to every sound she heard. Miss Timid was afraid of her own fucking shadow and all the other shadows in this place.
Her erratic behavior made her a threat, and I was grateful when she moved off, attracting the dogs’ attention to follow her.
“Can you pull this out?” she asked, lifting her injured shoulder. “I don’t want it to catch on something and do more damage.”
My fingers circled the buried little blade. “Can you brave it? It will hurt.”
“I can try.” She nodded.
With my hands on her shoulders, I turned her to face me, dipping my head, and I nodded, too, my face near enough to hers that our noses brushed.
“Stay quiet. Do you need to bite down on something?”
Her head moved from side to side. Her long hair fell around her narrow shoulders, hiding her uneven breasts.
I couldn’t help my gaze dropping there, and she couldn’t help trying to hide behind tiny hands. A million questions circled between us in the silence when I looked into her eyes again.
I didn’t voice any.
Thanks to the scars on her body, I already had all the answers.
My fingers spread between her shoulder blades, and I pulled her in, her breasts against my sternum, hiding the scars. “Bite into my arm if it becomes too much.”
She nodded.
My fingers wrapped around the blade handle, and hers squeezed around the thickness of my hoodie.
I started talking to distract her. “You really don’t remember me?”
“I don’t remember anything.”
I kept the shock from my face, borrowing her schooled expression.
“My name is Remi.” I adjusted my grip, getting ready to pull out the blade.
“Remi…” It rolled off her tongue beautifully as she nuzzled in a little closer. “Were we a couple, Remi?”
A smile crossed my lips, but it wasn’t a happy one.
“We were each other’s everything. But I didn’t know what to do with that.”
With her distracted by our conversation, I pulled out the blade and stabbed it into the tree behind us. She crumbled in my arms and fought through the need to scream.
